frontiersman

Noun

Meaning

a man who lives on the frontier

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A career as a scout for the Army under General Phillip Sheridan following the Civil War earned him his nickname and established his notoriety as a frontiersman. Source: Internet

Back in New York, the editor at New Frontiersman complains about having to pull a two-page column about Russia due to the new political climate. Source: Internet

Calhoun never fully trusted Jackson, a frontiersman and popular war hero, but hoped that his election would bring some reprieve from Adams's anti-states' rights policies. Source: Internet

Leonardo DiCaprio goes native (on screen and off) in THE REVENANT, about a frontiersman on a quest for revenge after he is left for dead following a bear attack. Source: Internet

Rorschach writes his suspicions about Veidt in his journal, in which he has been recording his entire investigation, and mails it to New Frontiersman, a local right-wing newspaper. Source: Internet

William Clark, American frontiersman who won fame as an explorer by sharing with Meriwether Lewis the leadership of their epic expedition to the Pacific Northwest (1804–06). Source: Internet

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